The Palestinian Prisoner Society revealed on Sunday that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) is detaining 19 mothers out of 60 female captives in the Israeli Sharon and Damon prisons.

In a statement on the occasion of Mother’s Day, the Society pointed out that the IOA deprives some of the female detainees of their family visitation rights. Others also complain of harassment, the ban of open visits which allow them to hold their children, and their deprivation of communication either through phone calls or even via written messages.

The statement revealed that wounded detainee Ablah al-Adam, 46, from al-Khalil, is the mother of nine children. Her youngest child was under three years old at the time of her arrest.

Captive Nisreen Hassan, 38, from Haifa, was denied her right of family visitation because her seven children are living in the besieged Gaza Strip. The youngest of her children was a 9-month-old infant when she was arrested.

Also among the imprisoned women in Israeli jails is detainee Joudeh Abu Mazen, 45, who is being held captive along with her husband and son.